Central High Pool Plan May Be Dropped in Budget Review
La Crosse Area Public School District weighs scrapping the Central High School swimming pool project to fund elementary materials centers and classroom additions. Board debates shifting $585,000 pool funds plus $100,000 for Central High expansion and $150,000 for Logan pool enclosure, potentially freeing over $800,000 for priority facility needs. Priority groups outline new schools, modernization, and administrative upgrades while June 2 meetings set further decisions.
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Grant Blum
la Crosse Tribune
Logan High School
la Crosse Area
Board of Education
City Plan Commission
Fiscal Control Board
Summit
South Side
North Side
Robert Johns Jr
Johns
Hintgen
State Road
Chattanooga Curfew Extended After Fatal Brick Attack
In Chattanooga Tennessee a state of emergency and a curfew were extended as National Guardsmen patrolled after four nights of civil disorders. Leon Anderson a 22 year old black man was killed by police fire while throwing a brick at officers responding to sniper fire. Officials opened an investigation into the shooting amid accusations of police abuse from church leaders and neighborhood residents.
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Chattanooga, Tenn
Gene Roberts
Leon Anderson
Roberts
Claude Armour
Anderson
Wilson Pickett
Height Based Pay Bias Linked to Height Over Brain say Pitt officials
University of Pittsburgh labor relations chief Leland Deck cites a 1967 1970 Pitt graduate salary survey showing men taller than six feet earning 4 to 10 percent more on starting pay. He argues recruiters bias toward height, not intelligence, and notes tallest grads sometimes have lowest GPAs yet highest starting salaries. Women judged less by height, he says.
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Ing
Deck
Pittsburgh
Duquesne Club
Pact Okayed Heileman Not Closing Plant
The G Heileman Brewing Co rescinded its plan to close the Kingsbury plant in Sheboygan after Local 277 ratified a new three year contract providing a 75 cent per hour raise. Russell G Cleary and Joseph Weiss announced the agreement which gives 28 cents the first year 25 cents the second and 22 cents the third. The board had announced the closure for economic reasons prior to a May 14 decision and a May 1 strike by Local 277.
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G. Heileman Brewing Co., Inc
Kingsbury
Sheboygan
Brewery
Local 277
Russell G. Cleary
Heileman
Joseph Weiss
277
Cleary
Franzwa Found Guilty in Wife's Death by Negligent Homicide
David Franzwa, 26, Eleva, convicted in Trempealeau County Court of negligent homicide by use of a weapon in the Dec 15 1970 shotgun death of his wife Grace Franzwa who was seven months pregnant. Jury deliberated from 3 p.m. to 9 10 p.m. sentencing set for June 1.
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la Crosse Tribune
Whitehall
Wis
David Franzwa
Trempealeau County
A. L. Twesme
Clifford Alberg
Eleva
Twesme
Franna
Franzwa
Mattka
Jury deadlock ends six month trial of Seale Huggins
A New Haven judge weighs retrial for Black Panthers Bobby Seale and Ericka Huggins after a six month trial ended in a 23 hour deadlock. The jury of five blacks and seven whites could not reach a verdict on murder conspiracy charges. Seale and Huggins remain jailed. a mistrial was declared. The Panther party issued a statement in Oakland lamenting delays and asserting innocence.
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Peter Cowen
New Haven
Seale
Panther
Huggins
Mulvey
Bobby
Ericka
Murder Trial Ends in Mistrial for Seale and Huggins
In New Haven, a judge declared the kidnapping murder trial of Black Panther Chairman Bobby Seale and Ericka Huggins a mistrial. The pair were remanded to prison while prosecutors vowed to retry them for the murder of Alex Rackley.
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Black Panther
Bobby G. Seale
New Haven
Conn
New Haven Superior Court
Seale
Ericka Huggins
Alex Rackley
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Clarence Krupp
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Schroeder, Roslansky and Associates
William Murphy
Arthur Christensen
Tee School
Chattanooga
Brick-Thrower
Paul McDaniel
H. H. Wright
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Padieben
Elke
By Lucy Eckberg
John Ward
William Mattka
Ward
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